Woolworths shares dive to all-time low after warning of 'marked' downturn
Woolworths had a day to forget yesterday, when it posted a profit warning, revealed dire recent trading, and tore up plans to sell its £200m stake in DVD publisher 2 entertain.
Woolworths angers shareholders by rejecting Iceland founder's approach
Woolworths faces a showdown with its biggest shareholders after the ailing retailer rejected a takeover approach for its 815 stores yesterday from Malcolm Walker, the founder of the Iceland frozen-food chain. 
Woolworths still eyeing The Warehouse
Cashed-up retailer Woolworths is still likely to make a tilt at the New Zealand general merchandise retailer The Warehouse, an investment house says.
Woolworths stands on brink as wage...
Woolworths is at risk of going into administration as soon as this morning as
it scrabbles to find sufficient funds to pay its monthly wage bill.
Woolworths in talks to sell retail...
Woolworths is in talks to sell its entire high street business to Hilco, the
specialist distressed fund, for £1.
Woolworths dives as it confirms...
Woolworths this morning confirmed a report in The Times that it is in
talks to sell its retail business.
Woolworths in talks over £1 offer...
Woolworths’ biggest shareholder was locked in meetings with advisers last night over how best to fight Hilco’s £1 offer for the company’s retail arm.
Woolworths fined for breaking FSA rules
Woolworths has been fined £350,000 by the Financial Services Authority for taking too long to disclose that its profits would be lower than expected.
New profit warning as Woolworths abandons 2entertain sale
Woolworths lurched deeper into crisis yesterday as it abandoned the planned sale of 2entertain, its DVD publishing business, and admitted that a recent collapse in sales meant that it would again miss its profit targets.
Woolworths may plunge into a retail bucket
If Steve Johnson wondered what he had let himself in for by agreeing to be the new chief executive of Woolworths, it was laid bare yesterday. According to one City analyst, he has no choice but to rip up the group's tried-and-tested model and become a bucket shop.
Woolworths in crisis rescue talks
THE management of Woolworths was locked in crisis talks this weekend about
securing a revised rescue deal to save the group from imminent collapse into
administration.
Woolworths investor touts alternative...
Woolworths’ largest shareholder, Ardeshir Naghshineh, is in talks with the
retailer’s banks about an alternative plan to a sale the company’s retail
arm to Hilco for...
Woolworths' main shareholder in bank...
Ardeshir Naghshineh, Woolworths' largest shareholder, is in last-ditch talks
with the retailer's banks about an alternative to a sale of the high street
chain's retail arm to...
Woolworths stores to close after...
Woolworths went into administration last night, putting thousands of high
street jobs at risk despite last-ditch government efforts to save it.
Potential buyers emerge to save...
The new management of Woolworths today revealed it has already received
several expressions of interests from parties about buying parts of the
business which collapsed last...
Film distributor is victim of...
The fallout from the collapse of Woolworths spread this morning as Metrodome,
a UK-listed film and television distributor, warned it risked losing
£320,000 it was owed by the...
Woolworths rejects offer by Iceland chief Walker
Woolworths has rejected a surprise offer to acquire its retail division by Malcolm Walker, chief executive of the frozen food specialist Iceland.
Woolworths rocked as senior director quits
One of Woolworths’ most senior directors has quit only a month after the high street retailer’s new chief executive savaged the poor performance of the group.
Bidders sought as beleaguered...
The starting pistol was fired yesterday for the sale of Woolworths and MFI as
the court-appointed managers sought buyers for the beleaguered stores.
BBC in talks with Woolworths as...
The entire Woolworths empire, including its stake in 2Entertain, the BBC joint
venture, is likely to be in administration by the end of the week, with its
10,000 pensioners at...
Closing-down sales herald end of...
Woolworths will begin a huge closing down sale across its 813 stores today
after Deloitte, the administrator, admitted that it had been unable to find
a buyer for the...
Woolworths lays off staff as search...
Woolworths will make 450 of its staff redundant in what is expected to be the
first of many job cuts at the collapsed high street retailer.
Steve Johnson to run Woolworths
Woolworths, the troubled high street retailer, has appointed Steve Johnson,
the former chief executive of Focus DIY, as its new chief executive. He
replaces Trevor Bish-Jones,...
Chaos and tears as Woolworths’ sale...
It is 9.30am and Sandra, assistant manager of Woolworths in the Wiltshire
market town of Devizes, is in tears beneath her red-and-white Santa hat.